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Ndapa Nakashole 🔊

Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Founder & Chief Scientist of Okalai AI

Bio:

Ndapa Nakashole is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her research focuses on natural language processing (NLP), with particular emphasis on multilingual models, interpretability, and AI for healthcare.

Prior to UCSD, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town, and obtained her PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University.

She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the Otto Hahn Medal.

📧 Email: nnakashole[at]ucsd.edu
🏢 Office: CSE 4108